Posted on 03/29/2016 9:18:50 PM PDT by pboyington
The biggest problem will be during the boring down time. That’s when mixing young men and women together will kill unit cohesion.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/11/politics/transgender-navy-seal-congress-kristin-beck-outside-with-insiders/
Bttt
I am going to repost some comments on the general subject from another thread from last Fall:
Comments from my nieces boyfriend on the women Rangers and the convenient loss of their training records a week or so ago. Applies here too.
He was a Marine 240 gunner, spent time in Afghanistan, this guy is serious business, we probably wish hed gone to SEAL school, hed have had a much better than average shot at it. Heres his commentary on the Ranger school records debacle:
Oh trust me, Im aware. S*** makes my blood boil. Im not even phased by the fact that theyre deliberately hiding the records of the females performance. I can only imagine how heavily that course was catered to the females, not to mention the fact that they probably outranked the entire instructor cadre.
We had a female interpreter in afghan, she was at the Company COP so I never saw her. She ended up having an affair with our Co 1st Sgt (surprise).
We also worked with the Brits for a while, since they had a patrol base not far from my squads pb. They also happened to bring in a female interpreter...pregnant in under 2 months, and sent home. Probably got an award for it.
Even if there were females that could meet the minimum physical requirements for the infantry, that s*** will never work. Itll be detrimental to the combat effectiveness of whatever unit they end up in. Lets not forget the American victim mentality as of late. I cant even fathom how many sexual harassment cases that would be filed. Then the rape accusations, pregnancies, relationships affecting roles and promotions, oh and the fact that no woman on the planet could firemans carry my 240lb a** with 100+lbs of gear out of a kill zone.
Rant over.
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Ok I lied, rant wasnt finished.
At the schoolhouse I taught at, we brought in non infantry units (POGs) and put them through several infantry centric courses. We had a strict standard of training and had no issues failing females or Marines that outranked us as instructors. This brought us some attention from higher ups on one occasion. A female warrant officer brought pizza for all 50 of her marines in our course. During their final exercise. We stopped her and reminded her of the fact that no outside food was permitted in our course. She returned with, The four females I have in the class are going to feel sexually harassed by you if you dont let them eat this pizza.
The article assumes women will be in direct combat. Less than 10% of our military is involved in combat. There are non-combat jobs even in Special Ops. Back in the 80s I taught shipboard firefighting, most of the women had no problem, those who couldnt make the cut were dropped along with those who couldnt pass the other courses.
This will end when enough body bags come back.
A woman does not have to life a 155mm artillery shell that weighs 100 pounds!
A 155mm artillery shell, US M107 projectile, weighs 96.73 pounds, not 100 pounds.
;)
I spent several years in 155mm artillery units.
The candidates are silent on this issue, too.
Hey Donnie, Hey Ted, Hey John ... what say you? (not even bothering to ask the Felon and the Communist ...)
A mutilated transvestite homosexual.
I'm not changing my tagline yet, but Cruz needs to pivot away from his family, and back to the issues. My patience is about gone.
You are welcome.
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